English Explanatory Dictionary

score

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The total number of goals, points, runs, etc. earned by a participant in a game.
  2. The number of points accrued by each of the participants in a game, expressed as a ratio or a series of numbers.
  3. The performance of an individual or group on an examination or test, expressed by a number, letter, or other symbol; a grade.
  4. Twenty (20).
  5. A distance of twenty yards, in ancient archery and gunnery.
  6. A weight of twenty pounds.
  7. A period of twenty years.
  8. Twenty pounds sterling.
  9. A great deal; many, several.
  10. An amount of money won in gambling; winnings.
  11. The written form of a musical composition showing all instrumental and vocal parts.
  12. The music of a movie or play.
verb
  1. To cut a notch or a groove in a surface.
  2. To record the tally of points for a game, a match, or an examination.
  3. To obtain something desired.
  4. To earn points in a game.
  5. To achieve academic credit on a test, quiz, homework, assignment, or course.
  6. To win money by gambling.
  7. To acquire or gain.
  8. To extract a bribe.
  9. To obtain a sexual favor.
  10. To rate; to evaluate the quality of.
  11. To provide (a film, etc.) with a musical score.
  12. To return (a horse and rider) to the starting-point repeatedly, until a fair start is achieved.
intj
  1. An acknowledgement of success.

Pronunciation

skôr /skɔː/ skôrʹ /skoɹ/ en-us-score.ogg skōrʹ /sko(ː)ɹ/ /skoə/

Word forms

score scores scoring scored no-table-tags glossary scorest scoredst scoreth

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- Proto-Germanic *skurō Old Norse skorder. Old English scoru Middle English score English score From Middle English score, skore, schore, from Old English scoru (“notch; tally; score”), from Old Norse skor, from Proto-Germanic *skurō (“incision; tear; rift”), which is related to *skeraną (“to cut”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“cut”). Cognate with Icelandic skora, Swedish skåra, Danish skår. Related to shear. For the sense “twenty”: The mark on a tally made by drovers for every twenty beasts passing through a tollgate.

Synonyms

prostitute's client earn obtain groove notch keep tally come by shake down pull soundtrack

Related words

grade

Derived words

Apgar score Baux score box score buzz score by the score credit score cricket score eightscore elevenscore even the score film score fivescore fourscore four score and seven years ago four score and ten four score seven years ago full score game score GERP score Gleason score go off at score ground score high score hi-score high score table high-score table keep score know the score major score ninescore no score no-score draw on that score on this score on what score outscore overscore pain score pay off old scores Q score quit scores run up the score score attack score bug scorecard score-draw score draw scoreless scores score-settling score sheet score-sheet score string settle a score settle the score sevenscore sixscore tenscore threescore three score and fifth

Translations

Catalan: vintena Chinese Mandarin: 二十 Danish: snes Esperanto: dudeko Estonian: kakskümmend Finnish: tiu Finnish: kaksikymmentä Finnish: keikka Finnish: poka French: vingtaine German: Stiege Hindi: कोड़ी Irish: fiche Irish: scór Italian: ventina Norwegian Bokmål: snes Norwegian Nynorsk: sneis Norwegian Nynorsk: tjug Portuguese: vintena Russian: два деся́тка Russian: двадца́тка Scottish Gaelic: fichead Sindhi: ڪوڙ Spanish: veintena Swedish: tjog Welsh: ugain Danish: score Dutch: scoren Estonian: skoorima Finnish: saada
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